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Jesus Didn’t Tap Out..

No, those words of wisdom didn’t come from me; it was in my newsfeed from one of my FB friends. Got me thinking, though; during a season in my life where I have struggled with feeling ‘tapped out’ trying to balance it all? I’m surely grateful He didn’t.

I teach my children to look to their faith for answers (and then tell them what to do and how to do it). I join a company for the team companionship (and then continue try to do it all on my own). I try to be there for my friends (but I rarely let them be there for me). Makes dates with really GREAT guys (but then don’t have time to go on them). See a pattern emerging? :). ‘Cause I think I do!

Three years ago, I wrote about trying to be ‘supergirl’ – wanted to have it all or die trying. Perhaps the truth to ‘having it all’ (or trick, depending on perspective) is that we don’t have to TRY – Perhaps we already have it. God gave us all we need; and so of course provided a means to keep it! There is a sufficiency in the framework of our Faith that provides the balance that we alone lack… Keeps us in the game, keeps us from ‘tapping out.’. There’s loads of scriptures that point to that; but my banner has always flown under this one:

“I can do all things through Him that gives me strength.” (Phillipians 4:13). So why am I so tired (besides the obvious medical issues, of course LOL)???

While trying to help a friend through some stuff, I realized that as I was preaching ‘surrender your load to the Lord’ – give it to Christ because He’s big enough for this… I had the help, but wasn’t surrendering the lead of the load. For whatever reason(s), be it remnants of control issues or simply not slowing down to breathe; I wasn’t allowing the fruits of the faith to sustain Me. Need to fix that; or rather, need to take the fixes God’s already provided me.

So that’s it; there’s my big revelation. I don’t have it all worked out yet; but I’m publicly proclaiming to my friends that I am starting to ‘get it’ and what better time than Easter to write about it? After all, it’s because Jesus didn’t tap out that I don’t have to, right???